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    Cleaned my headlight lenses

    So when I got my ZHP the headlights weren't in the greatest condition but I knew with due time I would be able to get them cleaned. Compared to my last car the un-mounting of the headlights was reasonably easy and removing the lenses were much simpler. No more baking the headlights. Yay! I took them to a place ive been going to for years and they did them for free so I couldn't beat that. Maybe it's cause I went right as they were closing so they didn't want to have to reopen the register system haha. When I got them back on the re-mounting of everything was much more difficult than I had anticipated because I was expecting to be easy but one bolt location was really hard to get to and since my tools weren't magnetized, I had lost a couple bolts into the engine bay. Took a good 10 mins to find them but through clever usage of a small magnet and a long thin stick, I was able to retrieve them. Anyways, after getting them all back in and mounted here are some pics of the end results. It's a little time line too so the part with the "bandages" were when I took the lenses to my shop. It looked like breast surgery haha (a joke my buddy who helped me out made).














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    Lookin' good, Albert.

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    Nice job.
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    Well done!

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    Excellent!


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    Looks fantastic!

    Why were you unbolting things though?


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    the headlights are bolted down in 4 places and the taillights are mounted to the headlight assembly. there is one that is in a very difficult spot to get to by hand. its raining today or else i would take some shots of it and post. perhaps tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tripod06 View Post
    the headlights are bolted down in 4 places and the taillights are mounted to the headlight assembly. there is one that is in a very difficult spot to get to by hand. its raining today or else i would take some shots of it and post. perhaps tomorrow.
    I've changed out my Halogen Assemblies on my E46 to go to P46s. But I never had to disassemble the headlights screws in order to take apart the lens (I replaced the AE's on my P46s Twice...From CCFL to Generic LED to Orion V2s).


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    I wish us coupe owners were able to take out lenses off like that. I would love to have brand new lenses but I wouldn't trade the Adaptive function for it. Just hope I never have problems with them $$$!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrMaico View Post
    I wish us coupe owners were able to take out lenses off like that. I would love to have brand new lenses but I wouldn't trade the Adaptive function for it. Just hope I never have problems with them $$$!
    Take a Porter Cable or Rotary and hit your lenses with some Plastic Polish. Always worked for me


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